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p.1 #1 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Guys!

I think this little beauty has gotten to little attention lately. We need another love thread.
Please post your best work with it.

A

Oct 27, 2009 at 08:29 AM

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p.1 #2 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

hi,
another love story:
once i did love my 58er,
but now i love my sigma more.
r

Oct 27, 2009 at 08:42 AM

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p.1 #3 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I see. Have you sold the Rokkor?

Oct 27, 2009 at 08:56 AM

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p.1 #4 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I tried the Rokkor
hoping for a new love
I found my true love
holding my Zuiko 50/1.2

Oct 27, 2009 at 08:56 AM

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p.1 #5 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

hi,
yes,
sold for gold.
r

Oct 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM

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p.1 #6 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I love photographing my love with my love;

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This is still my favourite 50-ish lens, by far.

Oct 27, 2009 at 11:41 AM

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p.1 #7 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Another that I like, wide open again:

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Oct 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM

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p.1 #8 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Well I won't wax poetic, but here are a few of my favorites with this lens that I do love.

2012 © Steve Spencer

Oct 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM

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p.1 #9 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

In low light...

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Oct 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM

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p.1 #10 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I've always like this one, too...

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Oct 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM

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p.1 #11 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Well, I sold mine a while back and regret doing so. There is something very special about this Rokkor.

Oct 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM

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Oct 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM

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p.1 #13 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I found some pics in ridiculous flickr size

will post some more later:

f/2ish:

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f/4

wide open

Taken with my (at the time) XTi.

Oct 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM

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p.1 #14 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I still have 2 of these and enjoy using them a lot. There's other interesting f/1.2-ish 50s out there but the Rokkor has a lot of specialness to it. I'll post the modern photo lens tests soon. It was the best 50-ish f/1.2 they had ever tested, from what I have seen.

-Ed

Oct 27, 2009 at 12:59 PM

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p.1 #15 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Ed Sawyer wrote:
I still have 2 of these and enjoy using them a lot. There's other interesting f/1.2-ish 50s out there but the Rokkor has a lot of specialness to it. I'll post the modern photo lens tests soon. It was the best 50-ish f/1.2 they had ever tested, from what I have seen.

-Ed

Maybe they had my copy.

Oct 27, 2009 at 01:15 PM

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p.1 #16 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Mmm... They liked the later version *much* more than the earlier one, for whatever reason. The one they loved was I think a 259xxx(?), I'll have to look it up. It was a rubber-grip version.

Oct 27, 2009 at 03:55 PM

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p.1 #17 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Ed Sawyer wrote:
Mmm... They liked the later version *much* more than the earlier one, for whatever reason. The one they loved was I think a 259xxx(?), I'll have to look it up. It was a rubber-grip version.

That just goes to show, once again, that there is some serious sample variation in the Rokkor 58/1.2. I never had a rubber grip version (6 copies) that matched my 200xxxx. A few of them were close...

But even an "average" sample of this lens is relatively excellent (relative to other 50s I have tried, that is) IMO.

Oct 27, 2009 at 03:58 PM

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p.1 #18 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Here are some of my pics. All shots were taken wide open on Canon 40D and in jpeg under low light. I wish I had used RAW then. These shots were taken at The Price of Freedom at Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC.

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Oct 27, 2009 at 04:30 PM

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p.1 #19 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a stopped down Rokkor
I sure don't want to hurt no one

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Oct 27, 2009 at 05:01 PM

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p.1 #20 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

My Nikkor Rokkor needs more love.

Oct 27, 2009 at 05:11 PM

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Oct 27, 2009 at 08:51 PM

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p.1 #22 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

^Awesome stuff as usual, especially 1 and 3

-Kyle

Oct 27, 2009 at 08:57 PM

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p.1 #23 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Kyle Nordeen wrote:
^Awesome stuff as usual, especially 1 and 3

-Kyle

+1

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Oct 27, 2009 at 09:18 PM

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p.1 #24 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Cool shots everyone. Here's my contribution:

Taken with a Canon 5D and wide open.

Oct 28, 2009 at 01:04 AM

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p.1 #25 · Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread

Kop - that first one is awesome!

Oct 28, 2009 at 01:11 AM


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